Electronic Applications of Chloroprene Rubber and Its Composites

Enhancing the material performance of chloroprene rubber (CR) by strategic incorporation of zirconia

“…Chloroprene rubber (CR) is known to demonstrate good electric properties because of the presence of chloro groups adjacent to carbon-carbon double bonds. 58 The frequency dependence of the dielectric constant and dielectric loss tangent (tan d) of all the zirconia filled composites, at room temperature is presented in Fig. 7.…”

The influence of DC voltage on the conductivity of chloroprene rubber-carbon black composites for flexible resistive heating elements

“…The overall resistivity is rather low compared to nonpolar polymers (polyethylene > 10 15 Ω cm 17 ), which proves that polar groups, some conjugated double bonds, and impurities significantly contribute to the overall electric conductivity. 11,12,18 The resistivity vs. reciprocal temperature semilogarithmic graph (Fig. 2b) shows that the thermal influence on the matrix is reversible – no significant hysteresis is observed for the cycle of heating and cooling.…”

Studies on reinforcing effect of industrial nano silica in chloroprene vulcanizates containing carboxy-terminated liquid natural rubber

“…8 Chloroprene (CR) finds special application in many products such as gaskets, cable jackets, tubing, automobile parts, seals, O-rings, tyre-sidewalls, gasoline hoses, textile, weather-resistant materials, 9 adhesives and electrical insulations and coatings. 10 The effective use of carboxy-terminated liquid natural rubber (CTNR) as a polymeric plasticizer in CR vulcanizates was previously reported. 11 This work illustrates the use of commercial nano silica as an effectual filler in CR vulcanizates containing CTNR as a polymeric plasticizer.…”